2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 26

Nature's Curiosity Shop, by Richard Kerr (Boys' Own Paper, Os.

net), deals with the freakishness and not the homeliness of Nature. It is a valuable addition to Nature lore, and its descriptions and pictures of butterfly eggs, strange caterpillars and birds and "vegetable sheep" are calculated to rouse in a child's mind the wonder which is one facet of worship.